Wednesday, January 27, 2010

I think the ad is from the early 1990s. The copy helpfully points out that you can "take off her tummy, and there's her baby. Lift out the newborn with moveable arms and legs, and now she has a flat tummy."

I also clipped a New York Times column by Anna Quindlen about the dolls, in which she describes the baby removal process as "a cross between a C-section, a tummy tuck and an Easter egg hunt."

Then and now, I find the photo of the smiling doll -- flat on her back, with her torso opened up like a porthole -- revolting.

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Third of four daughters, raised in a rural area outside of a small town. Now living in a moderately large city, making media and immersed in other people's media. Finally cleaning out the filing cabinet and loading its contents to the cloud.